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interesting. i guess I have about 7k emails stored in my account. maybe 10 labels. a bunch of labs featues enabled. and everything is usually pretty instant for me. searches never take more than a second or two. There's an occassional hiccup, but nothing really troubling.

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I have 50,689 messages now, down from ~68K. So I deleted like 18K. Again, it seems ridiculous that I need to delete messages.

However, it is even more ridiculous that if this is the solution that works, Gmail makes it really hard to make it work. There is no way to search for the biggest messages. There is no way to isolate all mailing lists. I can't find a way to search for [ in the subject.

I ended up launching up etacts and otherinbox and looking for people I used to contact years ago (old projects) and deleted emails from those projects.

Use IMAP access to get & sort messages by size and delete ?

yeah definitely agree -- it shouldn't slow down with more messages if one of the primary selling points is, "never delete another message."

Also, I haven't found any way to do a search then delete particular messages without deleting the whole conversation.

Anyone know how to do a search w/o pulling in conversations, and/or delete selected search results without deleting whole threads?

At present, I resort to IMAP.

// Over 150,000 messages per mail box, working on my third mail box.

How do you know the total number of message is gmail ?

Go to All Mail.

That's the total number of conversations.

I've been having the exact same problem. I've been playing around with Outlook + Xobni as a possible solution. Xobni is really nice software. It has some killer features that I'd love to have on any webmail client.

Syncing contacts and email with Google apps is an issue, but from what I read, paying GOOG $50 a year solves that problem.

19k, 3GB, 7 labels and it's speedy for me. Takes a few seconds to search or switch labels.

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